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Config Editor

Edit your mod config files without ever leaving the game.

Config Editor is a Fabric client-side mod that gives you a full-featured text editor, a visual JSON editor, an AI assistant, and a block info overlay — all accessible with a keybind while you play.

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Features

📝 In-Game Config Editor

Open any config file from your .minecraft/config folder directly inside the game. No more alt-tabbing to Notepad or VS Code.

• Syntax highlighting for JSON, TOML, YAML, Properties, CFG, and plain text
• Line numbers, horizontal and vertical scrollbars
• Find & Replace (Ctrl+F) with previous/next navigation
• Auto-save with file locking — retries up to 3 times if the file is busy
• Unsaved-changes warning when you try to close
• Backup button to snapshot your entire config directory before editing
• Open Folder button to reveal the config directory in your file manager
• Dark / Light / Auto theme with a toggle button

🖱️ Visual JSON Editor

Switch to a point-and-click interface for JSON files. No need to remember syntax.

• Add, rename, delete, and reorder fields
• Change value types (String / Number / Boolean / Null / Object) with one click
• Nested object support with expand/collapse
• Scroll through large files with up/down buttons

🤖 AI Chat Assistant (requires Ollama)

Ask an AI about your config files without leaving the game.

• Loads a file or entire folder into the conversation with one click
• Uses a local Ollama server (default: localhost:11434, model: tinyllama)
• Server availability check on open — shows a clear offline message if Ollama is not running
• Scrollable chat history

� Block Info Overlay

A Jade/WTHIT-style HUD element shown at the top of the screen while you play.

• Displays the block name and registry ID (e.g. minecraft:stone) of whatever your crosshair is pointing at
• Shows the block's item icon next to the name
• Semi-transparent background with a clean border
• Only visible in-game — disappears when any screen is open
• Fully toggleable via the config file (show_block_overlay)

📦 NBT Viewer

Point your crosshair at a block entity or entity and press the NBT key to open a viewer showing its NBT data as formatted JSON. Save it to saved_nbt/ with a custom filename.

🔌 Plugin API

Other mods can extend the editor by implementing the ApiEntrypoint interface. Built-in plugins include:

Plugin	What it does
Undo/Redo	Tracks edit history
Text Stats	Shows character, word, and line count
Date/Time Display	Shows the current time in the editor toolbar
Auto Bracket Completion	Automatically closes (, [, {, "

Manage which plugins are active from the Plugins button inside the editor.

⚡ Performance Optimisations

• GC hint on world join/leave — triggers a garbage collection pass before the new world starts allocating memory, reducing the RAM spike that causes join-world lag. Frees hundreds of MB in practice.
• Particle clear on level set — drops stale particle objects from the old world before the new one loads.
• Config is read from disk at most once every 2 seconds, not on every frame or keystroke.

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Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API
2. Drop config_editor-*.jar into your mods/ folder
3. Launch the game

Requirements:

• Minecraft 26.1
• Fabric Loader ≥ 0.18.2
• Fabric API
• Java ≥ 21

The AI Chat feature additionally requires Ollama running locally with a model pulled (e.g. ollama pull tinyllama).

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Usage

All three keybinds are unbound by default. Assign them in Options → Controls → Gameplay.

Keybind	Action
Open Editor	Opens the config file editor
Open AI Chat	Opens the AI chat assistant
NBT Display	Opens the NBT viewer for the targeted block/entity

Config File

The mod's own settings are stored at .minecraft/config/editor_config.json and are editable both in-game and with any text editor.

{
  "readonly_mode": false,
  "hint": true,
  "theme": "DARK",
  "doRenderBackground": false,
  "doSuggestions": true,
  "show_block_overlay": true
}

Key	Type	Default	Description
readonly_mode	boolean	false	Prevent editing files (view-only mode)
hint	boolean	true	Auto-close brackets and quotes
theme	string	"DARK"	Editor theme: DARK, LIGHT, or AUTO
doRenderBackground	boolean	false	Draw a themed background behind the editor
doSuggestions	boolean	true	Show autocomplete suggestions while typing
show_block_overlay	boolean	true	Show the block info HUD overlay

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For Mod Developers — Plugin API

You can add custom behaviour to the editor by implementing ApiEntrypoint and registering it via the Fabric entrypoint system in your fabric.mod.json:

"entrypoints": {
  "config_editor": [
    "com.example.yourmod.YourEditorPlugin"
  ]
}

public class YourEditorPlugin implements ApiEntrypoint {
    @Override
    public void init() { }

    @Override
    public void renderButton(GuiGraphicsExtractor context, int mouseX, int mouseY, float delta) {
        // Draw custom HUD elements over the editor
    }

    @Override
    public InteractionResult onType(int keyCode, int scanCode, int modifiers) {
        // Intercept keystrokes — return FAIL to consume the event
        return InteractionResult.PASS;
    }
}

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Links

• Source Code
• Author's Homepage

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License

Apache License 2.0